Sunday, February 8, 2009

Buyer's Remorse

On Saturday Zac, Laura, Brandon and I went to the outlets in San Marcos. We ALL had talked about saving money and definitely NOT spending money on purses, especially Coach purses. So what do we do? We walk into the Coach outlet, which was absolute madness. Picture hundreds of people in one store, shoulder to shoulder, smelly, hot, white people in the minority. Yep, it was that kind of a shopping experience. As I'm walking around, clearly disenchanted with the merchandise, I see a brown patent leather purse begging to be picked up. I felt the pressure to keep up with everybody else who had at least five purses on each arm, when I had zero! I grabbed it, looked at the price, and ran to get in line just so I could get the hell out of the store. Retail $348, Outlet $298, Clearance $99, 50% off $45. Yes, I got a ~$400 purse for $45. How could I NOT get it? I couldn't even take it out of the bag until today when I finally left the apartment because I felt so guilty. ... and that my friends, is why I'm in debt up to my eyeballs (insert catchy commercial catchphrase there).

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